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B-410623,B-410623.2 1 (2015-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Amyx, Inc. File: B-410623; B-410623.2 Date: January 16, 2015 James Y. Boland, Esq., Anna E. Pulliam, Esq., and Dismas Locaria, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the intervenor. Young H. Cho, Esq., Charmaine A. Howson, Esq., Renee S. Holland, Esq., and James P. Fuerstenberg, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's staffing plan is denied where the agency reasonably determined that protester failed to propose sufficient personnel. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of vendors' technical approaches is denied where the evaluation was reasonable, conducted in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, and otherwise unobjectionable. 3. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of past performance and relevant experience is denied where the agency properly treated these criteria as two distinct evaluations, and where the evaluations were otherwise reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 4. Protest contending that agency's source selection decision placed undue weight on a significant weakness in its quotation is denied where it was not improper for the agency to find the significant weakness to be a primary discriminator in its decision to award to a higher-priced vendor. DECISION Amyx, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations

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